I don't miss hunting. Such a pain in the ass to find a place to hunt. ND land is now all posted without the need to put up signs. There is an app so that people can contact the land owner but can put a number in but they dont have to answer it.

So you can't even ask. And if you accidently walk over a property line you can be charged... so fuck that drama.

OnX Hunt neatly solves much of that problem for a mere $30/year.

I don't hunt, but it's useful for a lot of other things. I used it a couple weeks back when we took our visiting relatives for a walk in a nearby wildlife and nature preserve. All the trails were marked

The "serve as a shooting range" made me chuckle thinking about the deer at the range I worked at. Eating grass unconcerned, ten yards in front of the benches, maybe 30 yards from where a couple dozen people were firing away. Of course these were suburban deer, but the more you use your "range", the more used to the shooting the deer will get, you'll be doing the hunters a favor.


Legal/being a douche, there's a fine line.

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Originally posted by cas:
The "serve as a shooting range" made me chuckle thinking about the deer at the range I worked at. Eating grass unconcerned, ten yards in front of the benches, maybe 30 yards from where a couple dozen people were firing away.

Ha! I'd forgotten about this. I used to belong to a sportsman's club about twenty minutes away. There'd be deer out grazing on the skeet ranges frequently--while we were shooting. Didn't seem to faze them in the least.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I'm trying to imagine anyone hunting on my property. What is it, lizard season?

Good eats. They taste like chicken. 12 ga. slugs tend to mess them up a bit tho......

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Originally posted by bettysnephew:
@RideWV
I recall you are a motorcyclist. I respect your feelings about no hunting on your property BUT! When I was riding (no longer due to medical conditions) I hit a deer on my BMW K1200RS. Totaled the bike and darn near me. My girlfriend also hit a deer on her bike. Roughly the same result. Personally as a former rider I was always grateful to those that harvested deer here in Iowa as we have way too many of those accidents on hoofs running around randomly killing bikers and causing exorbitant amounts of property damage to other vehicles. In this area you have either hit a deer or have a close friend that has.

Killing or as it's often said "harvesting" deer to control excess numbers is necessary. I'm quite aware of the problems deer over population creates. They can be hard on forests and are more likely to spread diseases among themselves. More numbers also mean more encounters with vehicles. Both my wife and I have hit deer in cars, a good friend hit one on his motorcycle and barely survived it. He was unconscious the only reason he did is he had two other riders with him to call a lifelight, and both being doctors got him stabilized until it arrived. W/o many predators to kill deer the numbers must be kept under control with hunting and believe me all my neighbors do their part, they kill quite a number of them every year.

The only 2 serious encounters I've had on motorcycles were with elderly men in their cars. I had one very close call with a deer but knock on wood I've not hit one yet.

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Would you prefer they place their tree stands much further into their property and end-up shooting towards yours? Perhaps in the direction of that trail you walk/ride? If my neighbors hunted on their property, I'd certainly much rather have them shooting away from it, rather than toward it.

Neither a hunter or acreage owner am I, but this was my very first thought when seeing the picture. Shit, I'd pass on the possibility of them shooting a deer a few feet on my land to avoid them shooting toward me with a rifle.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Would you prefer they place their tree stands much further into their property and end-up shooting towards yours? Perhaps in the direction of that trail you walk/ride? If my neighbors hunted on their property, I'd certainly much rather have them shooting away from it, rather than toward it.

Neither a hunter or acreage owner am I, but this was my very first thought when seeing the picture. Shit, I'd pass on the possibility of them shooting a deer a few feet on my land to avoid them shooting toward me with a rifle.

As a farm owner, I'm less worried about my neighbors than the random people who come out here to shoot. There's a picnic shelter like building on the other side of the farm next to me, which isn't part of that farm. We have cattle on the farm next to me, so I know they shoot there because there are targets set up by the fence, but nobody around me has any idea who is shooting there. They got so bad last year doing magazine dumps for hours on end that everyone around me started firing trying to get them to stop. It's all up hill from where they shoot to my house and barn, but at least twice, I have heard something slam into the roof of my barn while they were shooting. Was it a bullet, something else? I don't know since whatever it was didn't make a hole. My neighbor's wife swears that a bullet whizzed right by her head on one occasion.

Putting up game cameras is the way to go. Your word doesn't get a conviction in Court, but videos can make them look like fools.

The latest episode involved bush dumped along 700 feet of my property. I stopped by the substation and right off the lady at the desk wanted me to call the Deputy. No, my hearing is bad. A Deputy comes out and takes the information. But he doesn't ask for a way to contact me so I ask for his business card.

So a month goes by and the response is that he sees no brush even thought I sent him pictures of the brush piles and videos of the neighbor dumping logs on the property, shooting a bow/arrow across my property, worker blowing leaves on me, and neighbor giving my camera the finger.

For your enjoyment:

Seems like having their blinds on the border and shooting away from your property is a good thing.

Have you caught them on your property hunting or retrieving game they shot?